Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Mrs. Travers and her husband's traveling companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...
...author of this juicy invitation was neither cooing Dorothy Dix nor mooing Heywood Broun. It was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, first lady of the land, opening a Questions & Answers department for Woman's Home Companion. Crowell Publishing Co. will pay her $1,000 per month (estimated) for twelve months. Colyumist Roosevelt assured her readers that Woman's Home Companion Editor Gertrude B. Lane had "given me this page to do with exactly as I will...
...made a bee line to the White House to report to his chief. At the door newshawks upset him with questions about his expense account. London dispatches told how the U. S. Embassy had received bills totaling some $3,000 for Mr. Moley and Herbert Bayard Swope, his traveling companion. One was for $1,300 for transatlantic telephone calls. Another was for $500 for an airplane chartered to fly from Ireland to London but not used. Since Professor Moley and Companion Swope were not officially members of the U. S. Conference delegation, Secretary of State Hull declined to pay their...
...know the little red schoolhouse. . . . It was the companion of the log cabin. Both were the magnificent creations of a pioneer people fighting a great frontier, not of physical hardships alone, but of intellectual sparseness as well. . . . Literature and art should celebrate their glory, and there we should leave them. They are the outworn instruments of an earlier...
...companion piece shows Miriam Hopkins in an unusual role. As "Temple Drake" she wallows through a muck of William Faulkener situations with a drunken Southern boy, captured by gangsters, fascinated with the gang leader Trigger, ably played by William LaRue, she runs the gamut of degradation and disgrace to show you that the Southern girl at nineteen is dangerous, inbred, and crawling with complexes...